Help!

Rating: Null/10 (9 August 2005)

The suits and/or bean counters and/or analysts in Hollywood (or equivalent) are dumbfounded regarding this year's box office. They need to look no further than the fodder they ship to the theaters. Albeit, some people will flock to the theaters regardless of what is laid in front of them, most people won't.
The movies are unique in the sense that their industry is not bound by quality standards or guarantees (except AMC's "Cinderella Man). Imagine buying a car and upon returning home to find that the car's engine, which had been touted as the next breakthrough in mechanical engineering, was mischievously replaced by a mouse running on a wheel? You'd be angry to say the least! (thanx to IMDb for making me edit what I really wanted to write) TV, home theaters, piracy has stolen some of box office thunder but I point my finger at a lack of quality. And by quality I don't mean an endless landslide of old TV show turned movies incorporating todays best T&A while forgetting to use their brain while writing movies. And stop with the product placement. And don't think its clever to have the celebrity of the day in the movie because its not. Stop leaking and sneak-peeking vital information regarding the movie to the public 6 MONTHS IN ADVANCE. Get 'Access Hollywood' off your sets while you make the movie. After hearing and seeing about a movie for 6 months, can we all say STALE? The die-hard fans of the actors will show up and thats it.
I haven't seen The Island or Bay's last movie but as long as Hollywood continues down the "This movie appeals to the large demographic of 16-25 year old males, its full of hot stars, the content is very bland and unoriginal but will not offend anyone so it should attract a larger audience, plus we got the hottest new singer on the soundtrack who is also breaking into acting so we can plug him into the next movie so the audience will remember them" path, Hollywood would do better by flushing their production/marketing money.
I shouldn't have said the last part but I'm sick of the crap with movies. I don't work in Hollywood, they do. I'm just speaking as a fan.
I hope the supposed new digital theater projectors come equipped with TiVO, so I can fast-forward the 20 minutes a product bombardment before the movie.
Anyone else have thoughts? (Apologies for posting this rant under 'The Island.")